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are we in trouble or too soon to say?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 17/09/2016 - 18:49

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the problem is last season we pulled off some amazing wins at city and arsenal etc. its obvious we aren't going to get anywhere near those heights this season. the main problem is we're losing to wba and watford. second season syndrome looks like its set in to bilic reign and it looks like its going to be a season of trying to finish mid table (so far anyway). my opinion is and some disagree thats fine but our signings just aren't what was required. some of them may turn out to be good players for us but fact is we need players that were going to come in and take us forwards, not players who have to take a season to bed in. other teams have surpassed us in the transfer market and its showing early on….everton for example, a shambles last season are rejuvenated with bolasie and co. liverpool with mane, palace are improving with bent eke, and then the sleeping giants of man u and city are awake with new managers and new signings. question is did we over achieve last season due to our greatness or others decline? and have we failed to push forwards with our signings of zaza, calleri, nordveit, tore, ayew? we can argue that this time round we 'spent' big…but did we really or was it in proportion to the extra revenue and tv deals? and did we spend big on average players instead of players that would be better than what we had? its all 'knee jerk' reaction perhaps….but its a debate worth discussing in my view. theres also the matter of some of bilic decisions….favouring calleri over fletcher all the time when its clear as day that calleri is nowhere near ready for this level of football whereas fletcher shows signs of actually affecting a game. the decision on antonio early on. all i can say is in my view we need carroll and cresswell back as even a fully fit payet doesnt seem to have enough to get us winning against the likes of watford and wba at the moment although to be fair its the defence that is a disaster.

Billy Bonds

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Submitted by bonzo and the bov on Sat, 17/09/2016 - 14:01

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Happy 70th birthday to one of the West Ham legends Billy Bonds....

West Bromwich Albion v West Ham United Team Sheets

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Submitted by nevillenixon on Sat, 17/09/2016 - 13:48

WestBrom:1Foster25Dawson23McAuley6Evans20Galloway5Yacob24Fletcher14McClean22Chadl
i10Phillips9RondónSubstitutes2Nyom:3Olsson4Robson-Kanu7Morrison8Gardner13Myhill18Berahino
WestHam:13Adrián30Antonio19Collins21Ogbonna26Masuaku8Kouyate4Nordtveit16Noble27Payet
11Zaza10Lanzini Substitutes1Randolph7Feghouli14Obian17Töre24Fletcher28Calleri35Oxford

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Terrible football injury

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Submitted by mcbikeman on Sat, 17/09/2016 - 09:39

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next time andy carroll thinks he has a bad injury look up the pics of Dario scuderi who broke his leg on Thursday playing for Dortmund youth side......hope the kid recovers from this its probably the worst injury since david busst all those years ago,hope this link works

https://youtu.be/hl-aWTOh5kk

Stand or Sit?

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Submitted by madhammer on Thu, 15/09/2016 - 12:07

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I want to get a quick show of hands from other season ticket holders are you a stander or a sitter? I myself like to stand as that is what I have done since I was a child at UP.

the real world

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Submitted by mcbikeman on Thu, 15/09/2016 - 09:31

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anybody who saw that young boy Bradley lowery coming out of the tunnel for the sunderland game could not help but be moved...five years old and the lad has cancer those footballers running out next to him hopefully were humbled by the strength this lad showed to be out there with his team.....I am over 50yrs old and thankfully have had good health the luck of the draw as they say but the next time you bitch/moan about getting up for work or if your a footballer moaning about playing 5 times in 18 days well spare a thought for this child and others like him who would love to have problems like that if of course you can call work and getting paid well to kick a football work!

Russ Abbott

Submitted by Betty Swollox on Thu, 15/09/2016 - 00:41

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"What an atmosphere", sorry had to do it. Looking at this site and others and just the social media and general media comment on our new stadium, I think I've realised how gullible and naive as fans we are. Before and just after we got the stadium, it was all this legal stuff, over our right to be given it. Then we were told we wouldn't fill it, then we were told the atmosphere will be crap like the Emirates. We were told all this "The Media", every other Tom, Dick and Harry and also by some of our own fans. These fans I describe as the nostalgists, who remember the smell of horse chestnuts in 1958, but actually rarely went to UP anyway. I remember plenty of quiet evenings at UP, let's not kid ourselves that it was always like it was against Man U on that last night. I remember the first times we started to hear the boos, in recent years, so let's not bite on this claim by others that the atmosphere at just the OS is crap. For 35 mins on Saturday it was up there with anything else I've heard at the old place. It also coincided with us playing some amazing football. I think our problem is that we are listening to all these outside comments and trying to prove ourselves. We started to become divisive as fans. The "Standers and Sitters". The Standers think all the sitters are tourists and the Sitters think all the Standers are inconsiderate twats. What about just the "West Ham Supporters"? Are we not all there for the same reason? Yes it's no UP, yes it's not as secure, it's a schlepp to the station, blah blah blah, but so what? If we played at Hackney Marshes I'd go and watch them because it's my team and my club. I don't need to be enticed or sold the idea of going to watch them, what's all that about? I do believe an amnesty over fans sections should be reached quickly. But please don't tell us that we're tourists if we don't stand or stop singing after watching us lose a 2-0 lead to Watford! You can sing and stand as much as you like. We all support in different ways. As for the segregation issue and opposing fans. How about, self control? You know, give the banter, but do you have to fight? Spit at women, curse in front of kids and the elderly? What happens to make these men think it's ok to do this at a football match? Those days are over, move on, you're not Ray Winston and it's not a Nick Love film set. Lastly we've become so instant mash. We had a crap hour on Saturday, embarrassing and shameful, but now Ginge must retire, Byram isn't ready, yet Oxford is? What happens if he has a bad game too? Kouyate is finished and Tomkins should never have been sold? Really? One hour of football and all these assumptions? Lots of hindsight calls as well, "I wouldn't have started with Reid and Ginge" no shit Sherlock! Didn't say that when the teams came out though? All I saw was, "this is our strongest team" stuff. Calm down take a breath guys get yourself along to a match, if you possibly can, deal with the fact we've moved and let's look forward and upwards and act fittingly to fit in with our new mega stadium. Hopefully at some point the team will join us on the new journey...

West broom away tickets (real or fake)

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Submitted by harrythehammers on Wed, 14/09/2016 - 23:22

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I have managed to get a ticket for West Brom game via someone who cannot go and advertsised ticket online. I have the ticket but the word Saturday is missing the 'S' and kickoff time shows as 15.0

Is this normal or is my ticket a fake ?

Anyway of validating it?

Three Extra Rows Will Not Solve West Ham Segregation Issue

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Submitted by nevillenixon on Wed, 14/09/2016 - 17:34

According to various media outlets, some who can spell and some who cannot, West Ham United believe they have found a resolution to the segregation of fans issue by adding a further three rows of vacant seating to enhance security. Yes, that is three additional rows will be manned by well meaning but hopelessly under trained stadium staff, that's it? The only barriers between opposing fans are less than a metre and a half high and could be vaulted, to be politically correct, by a person of diminished stature! Unless there is a significant material structure put in place to prevent fan insurgences, serious incidents like the ones on saturday during the match against Watford will continue and escalate, creating a 'buffer zone' with three extra rows is using King Canute logic, especially given that the police will only enter the stadium in response to a serious incident until a new communication system is installed, thus leaving the 'line' to be defended by the mainly young stewards. The situation is further exacerbated because many of the season ticket holders in the sir trevor brooking stand area that adjoins where the away supporters are, particularly in the upper stand, are children accompanied by a parent, and so if, heaven forbid things did 'kick off' following an 'invasion' by opposition fans, there would be little or no physical protection available.
The club have stated that where possible season ticket holders will be moved to more appropriate areas (with hindsight something that should have been done from the outset) however the 'path' to doing so is not entirely clear unless waiting for hours at the end of a telephone gets a response.
It is absolutely vital that action is taken now, surely the construction of a realistic barrier, even a temporary one, is within the bounds of the stadium owners remit? As we have been banging on about, Watford and Bournemouth represent the less vociferous of opponents that will visit the London Stadium, others will not be so 'gentile', furthermore the hooligan element may be of the opinion that they have a stage, and the ugly minds of nasty pieces of work will be looking at all the 'opportunities' that they currently see on offer.
A three metre fence at the very minimum will at least go some way as to making fans feel more secure and to prevent the massive accident waiting to happen, perhaps further down the line thought may be given to relocating the away fans 'up in the gods' as they do at Old Trafford and Anfield, this would serve two purposes by ensuring segregation and nullifying the 'atmosphere' that away fans can currently generate due to the fact that they are right next to the pitch in the lower visitors section.
The London Stadium security issue has rather deflected debate regarding Saturday's eventual capitulation to Watford, but if matches are to be witnessed safely in the future, wins draws or losses, then the key issues need to be addressed swiftly.
Perhaps Alan Sugar can loan the police some radios? - Ed

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